Stardate-94260.65 Bib Blog 1 

I lie in bed, pondering the words “annotated bibliography.” Repeating them to myself, hoping to find comfort in them. Clinging to anything from my past that could give a slim amount of insight towards this legendary dread that has plagued the minds of music graduates before me. “Not I,” I declared as the looming idea of curling in to a ball and gently weeping seemed quite riveting during the sequential minutes. But comfort was found deep in the witty remarks of Barzun Jacque as he broke down the usefulness of an annotated bibliography in preparing and providing evidence to an idea in regards to presenting it to a novice. “Clear and concise,” my mantra, my motto, my… personally I’ve found that to truly describe a concept, you must make sure that any brief tangent must relate back to the over-arcing idea. With that in mind! I began my illuminating journey into the search for my subject.

I’ve always been fascinated in our collective interests in music. The massive expansion of human expression that spreads across all forms of genres with today’s information and technological capabilities, allows for trends in our understanding of emotional tropes to resonate on one’s psyche. Art is the vessel that allows society to reflect on humanity’s collective subconscious - transcending any one form of expression; one artist’s view is just one voice among billions of others. I would like to study how our greatly increased connectivity of this technological age has influenced our joint emotional state, and what this emotional commonality means for an emerging artistic paradigm. As our world communication and education grows, our capability for human empathy across borders can unite our similarities, which exposes patterns that act as stylistic pivot-devices to excite new possible emotional combinations to impact our listeners on an empathic level. Perhaps even triggering by a physical response to music. The determination of effective compositional restraints to affect arousal from prescribed emotional tropes requires exploration. I believe that answers can be found in music therapy, film music, music education, and the auditory system’s ability of interpreting sound.  Lucky for me the great wisdom of Barzun Jacque echoed back with comfort. I don’t have to explain the universe. I just have to explain the subject in a clear and concise way. 
               I am very excited about this about this class, in terms of being able to dive into subject matter that I am passionate about. I hope that with finding a variety of sources, I’ll be able to strip away all extraneous and irrelevant information. I’ll have to continue to refine my subject till an adequate title emerges from the smoke.